| 单词 | ignoramus jury |
| 释义 | > as lemmasignoramus jury C2. As a modifier applied to (the members of) a grand jury which rejects a bill of indictment with the notation ‘ignoramus’ (see sense 1a), as in ignoramus jury. Now historical.Frequently with reference to the grand jury composed of Whigs (Whig n.2 2a) who in 1681 rejected a bill of indictment for high treason against the Earl of Shaftesbury. ΚΠ 1681 Loyal Protestant & True Domestick Intelligence 16 Aug. His Majesty's Messengers..came to the House of Mr. Wilmore, who was Foreman of the Ignoramus-Jury. 1683 Russel's Farewel (single sheet) (Eng. Broadside Ballads Arch. 34910) vi With all your Ignoramus Crew, That Justice hate, and Treason brew. 1683 Compl. Citt (single sheet) All her pride was re-assumed by the Ignoramus-Whigs. 1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise Prol. sig. A4 Let Ignoramus Juries find no Traytors: And Ignoramus Poets scribble Satyrs. 1703 Rochester's Ghost in Poems on Affairs of State II. 131 With Nose cock't up, and Visage like a Fury, Or Foreman of an Ignoramus Jury. 1828 T. B. Macaulay Hallam's Constit. Hist. in Edinb. Rev. Sept. 152 Where were..the members of ignoramus juries? 1994 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 94 128 When Shaftesbury was indicted a week after Dryden's poem appeared, the Ignoramus jury threw out the case against him. < as lemmas |
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